In archaeology, a prismatic blade is a long, narrow, specialized stone flake tool with a sharp edge, like a small razor blade. Prismatic blades are flaked... 5 KB (634 words) - 13:29, 27 July 2023 |
A blade is the sharp, cutting portion of a tool, weapon, or machine, specifically designed to puncture, chop, slice, or scrape surfaces or materials.... 29 KB (4,286 words) - 23:07, 29 March 2024 |
In prehistoric archaeology, scrapers are unifacial tools thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking. Many lithic analysts maintain that... 6 KB (841 words) - 06:28, 14 April 2024 |
"Romans in China? - Archaeology Magazine Archive". archive.archaeology.org. Dragon Blade at IMDb Dragon Blade at Metacritic Dragon Blade at Rotten Tomatoes... 25 KB (2,699 words) - 16:33, 16 March 2024 |
piercing tools, and it has been used experimentally as surgical scalpel blades. The Natural History by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder includes a few... 34 KB (3,602 words) - 12:51, 12 April 2024 |
selected for their color rather than their chemical composition. In archaeology therefore, having a loosely applied general term is at least partially... 5 KB (492 words) - 00:27, 22 August 2023 |
Experimental archaeology (also called experiment archaeology) is a field of study which attempts to generate and test archaeological hypotheses, usually... 22 KB (2,366 words) - 04:14, 26 March 2024 |
This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y... 25 KB (2,611 words) - 05:55, 22 April 2024 |
Clovis culture (category Archaeology of the United States) Collins, Michael B. (1999). Clovis Blade technology: a comparative study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas. Texas archaeology and ethnohistory series. Austin... 58 KB (7,053 words) - 05:40, 28 April 2024 |
Burin (lithic flake) (category Archaeological artefact types) In archaeology and the field of lithic reduction, a burin /ˈbjuːrɪn/ (from the French burin, meaning "cold chisel" or modern engraving burin) is a type... 4 KB (386 words) - 15:20, 1 February 2024 |
archaeology to locate and excavate all subsurface dirt.[citation needed] In the Neolithic age and earlier, a large animal's scapula (shoulder blade)... 10 KB (904 words) - 10:57, 21 April 2024 |
Sword (category Blade weapons) A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be... 80 KB (9,633 words) - 18:25, 24 April 2024 |
the beginning of the Iron Age is defined locally around the world by archaeological convention when the production of smelted iron (especially steel tools... 65 KB (6,536 words) - 18:15, 25 April 2024 |
Razor (redirect from Razor blade) A razor is a bladed tool primarily used in the removal of body hair through the act of shaving. Kinds of razors include straight razors, safety razors... 23 KB (2,607 words) - 18:30, 1 April 2024 |
Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger (redirect from King Tut's iron dagger blade) dagger, is an iron-bladed dagger from the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1334–1325 BC). As the blade composition and homogeneity... 14 KB (1,507 words) - 08:29, 14 April 2024 |
2–2.0 cm (0.5–0.8 in) wide, and relatively thin. Archaeological experiments show that these blades were made with a copper indenter and functioned as... 31 KB (3,522 words) - 18:22, 15 April 2024 |
Microlith (section Truncated blade) arrowheads. Microliths are produced from either a small blade (microblade) or a larger blade-like piece of flint by abrupt or truncated retouching, which... 35 KB (4,378 words) - 19:51, 18 March 2024 |
Lithic flake (redirect from Flake (archaeology)) In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,": 255 and may also be referred to as... 10 KB (1,434 words) - 16:08, 28 December 2023 |
Rhomphaia (category Blade weapons) similar to the falx, most archaeological evidence suggests that rhomphaias were forged with straight or slightly curved blades, presumably to enable their... 7 KB (840 words) - 11:55, 25 January 2024 |
It splits the wood into two parts by the pressure concentration at the blade. The handle of the axe also acts as a lever allowing the user to increase... 30 KB (3,615 words) - 16:56, 17 April 2024 |
Bronze Age sword (category Archaeological artefact types) Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science 17, 27–35 (2010). "Typologically, the swords from Nebra and Vreta belong to the Sögel blades, which copy the shape... 18 KB (2,179 words) - 09:20, 26 February 2024 |
Kamen Rider Blade (仮面ライダー剣(ブレイド), Kamen Raidā Bureido, English title at logo is Masked Rider ♠ ), is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series... 17 KB (2,533 words) - 13:59, 6 March 2024 |
Ricasso (category Blade weapons) ricasso is an unsharpened length of blade just above the guard or handle on a knife, dagger, sword, or bayonet. Blades designed this way appear at many periods... 5 KB (602 words) - 18:33, 23 December 2023 |
The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future is a 1987 book by Riane Eisler. The author presents a conceptual framework for studying social systems... 13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:34, 15 March 2024 |
Knightly sword (redirect from Medieval sword blade inscriptions) weapon with a single-handed, cruciform (i.e., cross-shaped) hilt and a blade length of about 70 to 80 centimetres (28 to 31 in). This type is frequently... 21 KB (2,682 words) - 13:00, 5 November 2023 |